Postdoctoral researcher LUCRA & Manurefinery

at  Universiteit Gent

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• Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
• Department: BW25 - Biotechnologie
• Occupancy rate:100%
• Number of positions: 1
• Type of employment: Contract of limited duration
• Term of assignment: 24 months
• Wage scale: PD1 to PD4 (doctoral degree)
• Required diploma:PhD

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in bioproduction, with a focus on extraction and purification, to participate in EU Horizon projects LUCRA and Manurefinery. The latter is a recently awarded project, with 22 partners from 10 different countries, aiming to demonstrate on several farms in Europe novel technologies that recover resources such as organics, nutrients and energy. Ghent University will develop a pilot system in which we convert biomass to caproic acid, an interesting building block molecule as well as a feed additive. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to guide and implement, together with other project staff, the system development at laboratory scale. The postdoctoral researcher will also work with contractors to design the pilot system and supervise its construction and on-site installation, including training for operators. The laboratory scale development will aim not only at pilot design, but also delve into scientific questions that are still outstanding. The postdoctoral researcher will also participate in a second EU project, LUCRA ((www.lucra-project.eu ), in which similar approaches are followed but in a context of production of plastics from agricultural side streams.